| Type | Example | Associated Pathology |
| Acanthocyte (spur cell) | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/acanthocyte.jpg]() | Liver disease, abeta lipoproteinemia |
| Basophilic stippling | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/slide003basostip2.jpg]() | Lead poisoning |
| Bite cell | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/images..jpg]() | G6PD deficiency |
| Elliptocyte | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/eliptocyte.jpg]() | Hereditary elliptocytosis |
| Macro-ovalocyte | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/macro-ovalocyte-100x-website-arrow.jpg]() | Megaloblastic anemia, marrow failure |
| Ringed sideroblasts | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/ringed_sideroblasts.jpg]() | Sideroblastic anemia |
| Schistocyte, helmet cell | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/schistocyte.jpg]() | DIC, TTP/HUS, traumatic hemolysis |
| Schizont | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/pf_schizont_thinb.jpg]() | Malaria |
| Sickle cell | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/sickle.jpg]() | Sickle cell anemia |
| Spherocyte | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/spherocytes.jpg]() | Hereditary spherocytosis, autoimmune hemolysis |
| Teardrop cell | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/teardrop.jpg]() | A result of mechanical damage when RBC squeezes through fibrosis to exit bone marrow |
| Target cell | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/target.jpg]() | Asplenia, liver disease, thalassemia, HbC disease |
| Heinz bodies | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/heinz.jpg]() | Due to oxidation of hemoglobin sulfahydryl groups to disulfide bonds resulting in hemoglobin precipitationSplenic macrophages remove precipitated hemoglobin resulting in bite cellsAssociated with G6PD |
| Howell-Jolly bodies | ![https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/111007/images/howelljolly.jpg]() | Basophilic nuclear remnants found in RBCs associated with functional hyposplenia or |
